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Tuesday, December 17, 1996 · America West Arena

Capitals 3 at Coyotes 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 97OVR Keith Tkachuk Coyotes First Star 2G · 5 SOG L 74OVR Chris Simon Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG D 87OVR Sergei Gonchar Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:44 Peter Bondra (15) PPG Steve Konowalchuk (10), Phil Housley (11) WSH 1 – 0 PHX

2nd Period

  1. 8:00 Keith Tkachuk (15) SHG Brad McCrimmon (4) WSH 1 – 1 PHX
  2. 19:29 Sergei Gonchar (6) Joe Juneau (13), Chris Simon (8) WSH 2 – 1 PHX

3rd Period

  1. 2:54 Jim Johnson (1) Kris King (4) WSH 2 – 2 PHX
  2. 10:23 Oleg Tverdovsky (8) Jeremy Roenick (14), Mike Gartner (9) WSH 2 – 3 PHX
  3. 14:10 Keith Tkachuk (16) Teppo Numminen (8), Craig Janney (12) WSH 2 – 4 PHX
  4. 19:42 Chris Simon (7) PPG Peter Bondra (16), Sergei Gonchar (10) WSH 3 – 4 PHX

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Chris Simon L 1 1 6 0 1.53
Sergei Gonchar D 1 1 4 -2 1.38
Peter Bondra R 1 1 5 -2 1.30
Joe Juneau C 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Phil Housley D 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Kelly Miller L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Stewart Malgunas D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Todd Krygier L 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Craig Berube L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dale Hunter C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 -1 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey L 26 22 4 .846 58:55 -0.80

Phoenix Coyotes

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Keith Tkachuk L 2 0 5 +1 2.03
Oleg Tverdovsky D 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Jim Johnson D 1 0 2 +2 1.05
Teppo Numminen D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Craig Janney C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Mike Gartner R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Jeremy Roenick C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Brad McCrimmon D 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Kris King L 0 1 0 +1 0.40
Dallas Drake R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Jim McKenzie L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Igor Korolev C 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Darrin Shannon L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Dave Manson D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jeff Finley D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Shane Doan R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Bob Corkum C 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Darcy Wakaluk W 34 31 3 .912 60:00 0.85